• Frontolysis (also known as Frontal decay) in meteorology, is the dissipation or weakening of an atmospheric front. It is generally described as a decrease...
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    poor synoptic dynamics (e.g. an upper-level low filling) leading to frontolysis. From here, a general thinning of a squall line will occur: with winds...
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  • poor synoptic dynamics (e.g. an upper-level low filling) leading to frontolysis. From here, a general thinning of a squall line will occur: with winds...
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    explaining why sting jets form and why they accelerate during descent; frontolysis, the release of conditional symmetric instability, and evaporative cooling...
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    storm. Bowditch's American Practical Navigator Extratropical cyclone Frontolysis Outline of meteorology Ridge (meteorology) Air Apparent: How Meteorologists...
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  • rain (front [meteorology]: see) surface weather analysis frontogenesis frontolysis frost frost creep (frost heave) frost flowers (frost castles) (ice castles)...
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    across the boundary between two adjacent air masses. Contrast frontolysis. frontolysis The dissipation or weakening of an atmospheric weather front. Contrast...
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  • {\partial w}{\partial z}}{\frac {\partial \theta }{\partial z}}\right)} Frontolysis 1. Holton, J. R. (2004). An introduction to dynamic meteorology. (4 ed...
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  • Oklahoma and Kansas. A dissipating stationary front over Oklahoma underwent frontolysis and later redeveloped as a warm front which extended across central Illinois...
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